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  • Latin American Politics

    An Introduction

    by David Close ...
    Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger analysts of comparative politics and better political scientists in general ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Latin American Politics

    An Introduction, Second Edition

    by David Close ...
    Latin American Politics, Second Edition is a thematic introduction to the political systems of all 20 Latin American countries. The approach is self-consciously comparative and encourages students to develop stronger comparative analysis skills through such topics as history, violence, democracy, and political economy. Fully updated and revised, this second edition also includes a new chapter on ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Deadly Woods Ii

    A Deadly Terror Returns

    by David Close ...
    It all began with a dead body, naked and hanging from a tree in the woods, and continues with unprovoked animal attacks in a nearby golf course. What follows has the town residents living in fear of a deadly terror. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Between Classes

    by David Close ...
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  • Greece since 1945

    Politics, Economy and Society

    Series series The Postwar World
    The book draws extensively on research on modern Greece in recent decades, and on the many perceptive commentaries on recent events in the Greek press. It adopts both an analytical and chronological approach and shows how Greece has both converged with western Europe and remained distinctively Balkan. David Close writes clearly and forcefully, and presents a lively picture of the Greek political ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Greek Civil War, The

    Series series Origins Of Modern Wars
    The Greek Civil War (1943--50) was a major conflict in its own right, developing out of the rivalry between communist and conservative partisans for control of Greece as the Axis forces retreated at the end of the Second World War. Spanning the transition from World War to Cold War, it also had major international consequences in keeping Greece (alone of all the Balkan nations) out of the ... Read more

    $111.99 USD

  • Revolution

    A History of the Idea

    Edited by David Close, Carl Bridge ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy
    First published in 1985. Revolution has been often defined, often abused as a descriptive term for elements of the political process. This book analyses the concept of revolution, and discusses ways in which this concept has changed from Aristotle to the late twentieth-century. The historical circumstances which have shaped the idea and caused it to change are outlined. Special attention is given ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes Volume 1

    Advances in breeding and cultivation techniques

    Series Book 35 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews key developments in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity and how they have informed advances in breeding new varietiesCoverage of advances across the value chain for grain legume cultivation, from variety selection to post-harvest storageDiscusses the latest trends in disease, insect pest and weed management ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

    In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

    Unabridged

    14 hours 44 min

    From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Murder by the Sea

    True Crime Stories from our Sinister Shores

    Narrated by Will Close ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    A beach read like no other! Be prepared for a journey from wherethe land meets the sea, to where life meets death.There is something sinister about a British seaside town. On the surface they’re all funfairs and breezy promenades. Yet dig a little deeper in the sand and you soon uncover an underworld of murder, madness and mayhem…Murder by the Sea Vol 1 is a companion book to the long-running true ... Read more

    $28.18 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beijing Olympiad

    The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event

    The stage is set for the Beijing Olympiad to be the greatest mega-event, sporting or otherwise, in history. Still, the issues taxing many minds include whether the Beijing Games will be successful; whether they will be wrought with and wrecked by troubles; and who they will benefit. What value will the 2008 Games be to the people of China? Will they mainly serve the purposes of the dominant ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Asia Pacific and Human Rights

    A Global Political Economy Perspective

    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. Interest in, concern about and action on human rights are widespread and rising, albeit in a far from globally even, uniform and untroubled fashion. Human rights have generated a booming global industry while having become, not unconnectedly, highly controversial and deeply contested. Human rights matters have emerged as ... Read more

    $64.99 USD